The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in the US died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he was shot by police, the FBI announced today.

The gunman who murdered six people inside a US Sikh temple was a neo-Nazi white supremacist extremist.

US public schools in Jackson, Mississippi, will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.

US civil rights activists have filed a lawsuit against a Mississippi public school body, claiming officials at one alternative school respond to minor violations by shackling children to railings and poles for hours at a time.

POLICE in riot gear rushed a downtown street to break up a standoff between hundreds of black and white extremists who exchanged screams of “Black power!” and “White power!” during a protest over the state’s handling of the case of a black man who was run over and dragged by a vehicle.

Six children have been temporarily taken into care in a child porn investigation following a raid on an Arkansas ministry run by a man who says "consent is puberty" when it comes to sex.

Social workers are interviewing children who live at an evangelist group's headquarters after FBI agents and police raided the compound in a child porn probe.

WHITE-POWER groups are making a comeback in the US after losing support in the wake of the September 11 attacks on Washington and New York.

A US judge today vowed to fight an order to remove a 350 stone Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse.